Loan letters

If your loan is provided by your national, state or regional government or provided by a government sponsored student loan company, or it part of an academic or educational loan scheme, then you can show a loan letter from this provider as evidence of your funds.

The letter should be dated no more than 6 months before the date you submit your visa application. It must contain the following details:

▢ your name; ▢ the date of the letter; ▢ the financial institution’s name and logo; ▢ the money available as a loan; ▢ confirmation that the loan is provided by your national government, their state or regional government, a government sponsored student loan company or is part of an academic or educational loans scheme.

It should be clear from the documents submitted how the loan will be disbursed, and that the money must be available to you before you travel to the UK unless they meet either of two exceptions:

the loan is an academic or student loan from your country’s national government and it will be released on or before arrival in the UK, or

the loan funds are or will be paid directly to the Tier 4 sponsor before you travel to the UK and the living costs portion of the loan will be released to you on or before your arrival in the UK

You cannot use a loan in the name of your parents.

You cannot use a loan letter to show funds for your dependant.

Your loan letter would not be accepted if it is from a financial institution from which the Home Office is unable to satistactorily verify documents. You can check the list of financial institutions in Appendix P of the Immigration Rules.

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